Enjoy (even if youve seen it already) 42 Great Facts :: Did you know? 1 MOPED is the short term for Motorized Pedaling. 2. POP MUSIC is Popular Music shortened. 3. BUS is the short term for Omnibus that means everybody. 4. FORTNIGHT comes from Fourteen Nights (Two Weeks). 5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a withdrawing room where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix with was dropped.. 6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S.. 7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from Agricultural Marketing. 8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about Journey for a day during each Days business. 9. QUEUE comes from Queens Quest. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queens Quest.. 10. TIPS come from To Insure Prompt Service. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written To Insure Prompt Service. This gave rise to the custom of Tips. 11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named General Purpose Vehicle (GP).GP was changed into JEEP later. 12. Coca-Cola was originally green. 13. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.. 14. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 15. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard. 17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! 18. You cant kill yourself by holding your breath. 19. It is impossible to lick your elbow. 20.. People say Bless you when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. 21. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 22. The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. 23. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. >> Spades - King David >> Clubs - Alexander the Great, >> Hearts - Charlemagne >> Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 24. Horse Statue in a Park… >> If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. >> If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle >> If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 25. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women. 26. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 27. A snail can sleep for three years. 28. All polar bears are left handed. 29. Butterflies taste with their feet. 30. Elephants are the only animals that cant jump. 31. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 32. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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